signal: Provide posixtimer_sigqueue_init()

To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.

Provide a new function to initialize the embedded sigqueue to prepare for
that.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.450427515@linutronix.de

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index dbd42471cf03..911ed3ab479e 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1905,6 +1905,17 @@ void flush_itimer_signals(void)
 	__flush_itimer_signals(&tsk->signal->shared_pending);
 }
 
+bool posixtimer_init_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q)
+{
+	struct ucounts *ucounts = sig_get_ucounts(current, -1, 0);
+
+	if (!ucounts)
+		return false;
+	clear_siginfo(&q->info);
+	__sigqueue_init(q, ucounts, SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC);
+	return true;
+}
+
 struct sigqueue *sigqueue_alloc(void)
 {
 	return __sigqueue_alloc(-1, current, GFP_KERNEL, 0, SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC);